You know, I'm really starting to get annoyed by the recent amount of
posts that say "URGENT" in the subject or something along the lines of
"answer quickly, it's urgent" in the body. Even if I see "urgent" in the
subject or body, do I answer the question any faster? Do I skip all the
rest of the messages I'm looking at just to answer the "urgent" one?
ABSOLUTELY NOT. Why? Because it's not urgent to me or the rest of the
group. Simply by posting your question you'll get an answer within a
couple of hours 95% of the time. That's a pretty damn good response time
for a free service.
What makes it more annoying is that the "urgent" questions are often
simplistic ones. The kind of questions that make you think... wow, if
this individual doesn't know how to do this, but it's *so* urgent, what
kind of company do they work for who has developers that don't even know
the basics?
And yes this is a rant - but bottom line is that I would request people
refrain from letting us know how urgent your problem is. We don't need
to know, and we don't care. It's pretty arrogant to think otherwise.
I'll leave you all with a link to a specific section of the article our
group uses as a guide for new members:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#urgent
[Gets down from pedestal]
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